She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Old Chen held onto Xiao Ma's trousers tightly, not daring to let go, and just watched as everyone stared at Old Ma's family and him standing next to Xiao Ma.

His second son's wedding is certainly important, but Xiao Ma is already... already in this state, there's no point in trying to cover things up anymore. It's better to let Lao Ma and his family resolve things first.

Judging from everyone's expressions, their attention was no longer on the second son. He turned to look at the second son and his wife, who had just entered the room. The two of them were watching the spectacle with even more enthusiasm than he was, completely forgetting that they were the main characters in today's wedding.

Fine, if they're all like this, then he, as the father, might as well do whatever he wants.

Old Chen said, "Old Ma, you...you...you...sigh!"

Old Ma's face turned pale. He never expected his son to do such a thing in public. Wasn't he supposed to go crazy just from hearing those kinds of words? How could he so readily pull down his pants and show them to so many people?

Does he have no self-respect? Does he not know propriety, righteousness, integrity, and a sense of shame?

Old Ma didn't know what to say for a moment. Should he explain the baby in Guan Tao's belly first, or explain whether Xiao Ma could give birth, or... or should he take the person home first?

Yes, we must take Guan Tao back first. The child in her belly is the last heir of the Ma family, and we cannot afford any mishaps.

Old Ma pulled Guan Tao through the crowd and went out, not even glancing at the disheveled and crazed Xiao Ma, and went straight to the front door of the house.

He tried to push the door open, but it wouldn't budge; Old Ma's wife had locked it.

He banged on the door from the outside, yelling, "Open the door! What are you doing? Open the door right now!"

The voice was urgent, fierce, and impatient. Why was the door locked at this hour? What was his wife doing inside?

Old Ma's wife was inside the house when she heard a series of "ah ah ah" sounds coming from the greenhouse. She felt much better, thinking that Little Ma was just acting crazy in the greenhouse. As long as she made Old Chen's family unhappy, she would be much happier.

But when she heard Lao Ma's voice, she was startled. His tone didn't sound like someone who had just come back from watching the commotion. Could it be that he was unhappy to see Xiao Ma like this?

As soon as Old Ma's wife opened the door, she was met with a loud slap that knocked her to the ground.

Old Ma: "I'm asking you, Xiao Ma was locked in the house, how did he escape? Was it you? Did you let him out under the pretext of going to the toilet?"

Old Ma's wife felt dizzy. "What's wrong, Old Ma?"

Since Xiao Ma's accident, Lao Ma hadn't hit her for a long time. Apart from the fact that she was unhappy serving Guan Tao, that shameless slut, things were much better than before. But now Lao Ma has hit her again.

When Guan Tao saw her being beaten, she sneered inwardly. Having been married into the family for only a few months, she already knew this whole family was no good. Xiao Ma's ex-wife, on the other hand, was a sensible woman; she'd rather go to jail than leave the family, otherwise she'd either be beaten to death or suffer a lifetime of misery.

Old Ma only had one son, and his daughter had also been beaten since she was a child. When she grew up, in order to find a wife for his son, he married her off to a bachelor in his thirties in the next city. After she got married, she never came home again.

From an outsider's perspective, this family is a working-class husband and a virtuous wife, but none of them are human; they are all beasts.

Old Ma treated his wife like a servant, a tool for bearing children, and would beat her at the slightest provocation. After Little Ma's wife came in, Old Ma's wife suddenly felt superior because she was the elder, and the three of them ganged up on Little Ma's wife.

Finally, the other family couldn't take it anymore and cut off all their hopes. By then, they regretted it, but not completely. They didn't regret beating their wife; they regretted not having her give birth to a boy sooner.

The Ma family line ended with Xiao Ma. Xiao Ma was no longer useful, and their once loving relationship changed. In truth, Xiao Ma was merely a tool for them, a tool to continue the family line.

Guan Tao is the eldest sister in her family, with several younger sisters. Because her mother didn't give her father a son, she was the first woman in the countryside to be divorced by her father. She never held her head high for half her life and lived with her daughters in the most remote and dilapidated house.

In winter, the walls were drafty, so she and her sisters plastered them; in summer, the roof leaked when it rained, so she and her sisters patched it. No one helped them; they all thought it was bad luck.

As she grew older, no matchmakers came to her door, fearing that some young man would never be able to hold a son. She even told her younger sisters that if she had to marry to have a son, it would be better to remain unmarried for life, so as to avoid serving that whole family and being blamed in the end.

However, this mindset disappeared after her mother became seriously ill. Her mother had been confused her whole life. If a woman feels ashamed of her husband's family for not giving birth to a son, she will never be able to stand on her own two feet.

After being kicked out of the house, her mother felt hopeless and placed her last hope on Guan Tao, the eldest daughter. She hoped that Guan Tao could get married and have a son.

Her mother's illness worsened, making the already impoverished family even poorer. Guan Tao hated her father, but although her mother was confused, she had raised her and her younger sister well, and she couldn't just watch her mother die like that.

She started looking for matchmakers everywhere, asking them to introduce her to potential partners. She didn't ask for a high dowry, just enough for her mother's medical treatment and to help her younger sisters get through this difficult time.

However, even so, it was difficult to find someone. It wasn't until Old Ma came that the matchmaker immediately thought of Guan Tao.

Because Old Ma's demands were so outrageous, even if the bride price were higher, no girl from a normal family would agree to it, even if she wanted to jump into a river or hang herself.

The matchmaker was also afraid of getting into trouble, so she wanted to cancel the deal with Lao Ma, but then she suddenly thought of Guan Tao, who was eager to get married.

She told Guan Tao about it word for word, adding that as long as she kept it a secret, no one would know that her mother could only give birth to daughters, and then the matter might work out.

Guan Tao felt a little disgusted, but sacrificing herself could save her whole family, and this opportunity would never come again, so she agreed.

When she arrived at this compound with that old man, she was still uneasy. But after it actually happened, Guan Tao felt that it was just like that. The old man listened to her in everything he wanted a son, and he was living a better life than her mother and father before they divorced. He even had the old man's proper wife to serve her.

Guan Tao initially just wanted to test this family's temperament, but after discovering that they would do as she said, she became bolder. Although she was shocked and didn't understand Old Ma's wife's behavior, she herself benefited from it, so she had nothing to say.

She knew that once she gave birth to a boy, life would probably be chaotic, but she would take it one day at a time, since her body was already completely ruined anyway.

The day she became pregnant, Mr. and Mrs. Ma were overjoyed and kept saying "God bless you."

Guan Tao sneered inwardly. Even if God were to bless people, He wouldn't bless such a beast.